Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-04-09
NEWS NOTES.


John ". L - ds has accepted the demo-
Island.
A negro at Birmingham, Alabama. plung-
ed knife into the heart Of a coon who IN
dertOok TO elope to Atlanta with his wife.
For the qusdrennial Weighing Of mails at
Ohicago three hundred extra men Will be re-
quired for i've weeks, at 50 per day each.
Mrs William Hetherington, wife of a
Well-knoWn banker Of Atchison, died at hcE
home Of fatty degeneration Of the heart
A controversy at Tunis in regard to
burials led all the Hebrew merchants to
close their shops, and the city has been
placed under military protection.
The first divorce case ever filed in the
United States circuit court at Chicago was
that OF Ida vs. Frank Bowman, which was
from the Cook county circuit court.
Nathan FAN, a travelling salesman, having
been held TO bail at Denver for larceny, &C
oompanied a constable to the third floor OF
the chamber OF commerce, whence he threw
himself over the banlstsT. He fell seventy
feet, and 30 fractured his skull that the
brain protruded-
The Congregational ministers of Chicago.
At recent meeting, adopted resolutions
mighty euiog1Zing the late Henry Ward
Beecher as an author an orator, a patriot
and philanthrOpIst. The only obiectOr
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able 70 ignore the Iilton scandal.
Egypt has imported experts and machin-
cry from the United States 70 bore for Pc
trolsum along the banks Of the Red river.
A msss meeting will be held in Boston
within q week to protest against the Irish
coercion bill
Aaron Hood fell dead from heart disease
at Shelbyville, IL, Sunday night, in pres
ence Of his family.
Win Yowels, lO-year-old, stabbed and
killed VIII Lavassay aged IA, at Mount
Vernon, KY.
Nine horses IN stable at Mason City,
Iowa, are affected with epizoOt resembling
the national epidemic Of 1872.
The Canadian Pacific road lost $780,
through a collision Of freight trains near
tranEtoWns Ontario.
o. NJ. Henderson, a shoe manufacturer of
Chicago, rss accepted an offer of $4,000
from the citizens Of Dixon, Illinois, to 10
cate his factory at that place.
Alexander Goldson, the artist who killed
the school girl Mamie Kelly at San Francis
90, was found guilty Of murder IN the first
degree.
Every few weeks rne country is informed
that the Tongue River Indians, In Montana,
are starving to death. The reiteratiOn of
and he recently took steps TO ind out the
facts. he has received a dispatch from
Agent UpshaW to the effect that no Indians
under that agency have starved to death.
and that they are drawing their customary
rations.
Fred Sellers and Rebecca Michaels, be-
longing to prominent Leavenworth Jewish
families, eloped and we're married in Kansas
City Kan.
Only brief item in an obscure Welsh
paper the other day chrOnicled the death of
man whose name has been a household
word IN millions Of families aud wherever
the English or any other langua se is rpoken
This Is q. j. Dyson Perrius, the junior
member OF the firm OF Lea a. Parrins. man
uracturers OF the celebrated Worcestershire
sauce that bears that name. He died sud
denly, at the age of g. at his country seat at
Great Malvern, leaving fortune of several
million pounds sterling es a result of the
universal consumption of the famous sauce.
Forty years ago he was ponr young man,
and the formula of the decOction upon
which his fortune was built was obtained
from the discovery Of an army man who
sofa II Tor a Few score Of pounds.
Herr Most will be released from prison in
or his term.
The annual meeting Of the Union Pacific
railroad company was held in Boston. But
one change was made in the board of direct
ora, d. Spaulding being substituted for John
P. Spaulding.
Roswell s. Ripley, a graduate of West
Point who rOse IN the rank of major in the
war with Mexico, and took sides with the
oontederates at the outbreak of the rebellion,
becoming a general, died Of apOplexy at a
hotel In New York.
The chemists of the department. OF agri-
culture, under the direction of the commits
sionerss have for year or more been inves-
hgatlng the extent and manner of food Rdul-
teralon practlced IN this country and a re-
port covering several branches of the work
10 in process OF preparation. That portion
relsting to spices and condiments, prepared
completed. Mr.. Richardson's investiga-
tions show that no other kinds of
human food are adulterated on such an
extent. OF twenty samples OF ground cloves
examined only two were pure. The others
had suffered the extraction of their essen
tial oils, and has been polluted by the addi-
tons Of Glove stems, allspios and husks of va
rlous kinds. Ot eighty samples OF cayenne
pepper only one was pure. OF ten samples
OF mustard none were pure. Unchanged
mustard, though several had only suffered
the loss or their fixed oil, the others CON
tanned quantities of wheat flour, the spurious
matter being in some cases two-thirds of
the compound. This made il necessary to
add tumeric harmless to restore the mus
tard color. The samples of allspice were ex-
amined, eight Of which were pure. Four
samples of cassia were all pure. OF ten
samples Of ginger four were pure Only ole
out of thirteen samples Of black pepper Was
found to be what il purpOrted to be. A
specimen sent from Baltimore TO a man who
had an army contract was almost entirely
spurious Cayenne pepper, black pepper,
husks, and mustard hulls were used to give
flavor aud pungeney, while the body was
supplied BY ground beans and rice and col
ored BY charcoal Two samples of mace out
OF i've were pure, and OF three samples of
nutmeg examined all were pure. Mr.. Rich
nrdson's experience leads to the conclusion
that the public has the power IN its own
hands to effect a form in the matter OF
spice authorizations.
It il understood that United States min
lister Of Austria is to be appointed soon.
The reduction OF the public debt for the
month of March amounted to 81 10000.
A potato crop disease called the blight
has broken ont IN Louisiana patches, and il
doing great damage.
A train about to be placed on the Lake
Shore route between Chicago and New York
IA to be equipped with q bath room, barber
shop, library aud electric lights, and posi-
bly:heated By steam.
In the case Of the slave ships recently cap
tured by the gunbOat AIbaoOre and the slOOI
Dolphin, a cOurt-martiai at Suakim, ad-
judged the vessels prizes and gave them tC
their captora. The crews of the slavsrs were
publicly logged AMI the slaves we're or
dered liberated at the British station on the
Red sea.
The JUICY in the case Of Maggie Redd, in.
dicted for muI der, which has been on trial
In the criminal court at Independence, Mo.
returned verdict of granddaughter IN the
third degree. She vas sentenced to threg
years in the penitentiary. Her victim was
Jokn NYe, q 14-year-Old colOred bOOtblack
Both resided in West Kansas. They haC
quarrelsd over the possession Of a silk hand
kerohief and the boy accOstsd Maggie Whilt
she was drawing water from a cistern in the
saBult Pen" She drew q knife and stabbed
him IN the Jngular vein. Nye died on the